Wash-board



(No Model.)

J. T.'LENO1R.

WASH BOARD.

No. 451,432. Patented Apr. 28,1891.

ATTORNEYS j UNITED STATES PATENT ENCE.

JOI-IN THOMAS LENOIR, OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BUFORD A. SUMMER, OF BUFORD, MISSISSIPPI.

WASH-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent N0. 451,432, dated April 28, 1891. Application tiled September 10, 1890. Serial No. 364.531. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN THoMAs LENOIR, of Columbia, in the county of Marion and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and usefullmprovementin\Vash-Boards,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved washboard whereon iibrous material is manually ro rubbed to remove dirt and stains, and has for its object to provide an improved device of the type mentioned, which'is of simple construction, and that will afford means for a renewal of the rubbing-surfaces by a change x 5 of adjustment ot its parts.

To this end my invention consists in the construction of parts and their combination, as hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

zo Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l is a plan view ot the wash-board.

2 5 Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, taken on the line 2 2in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a side view of a moditied form ot' the detachable rubber-bars. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same in the direction of the arrow in Fig'. 3;

3o and Fig. 5 is a transverse section ofthe same,

taken on the line 5 5 in Fig. 3.

The wash-board consists, essentially, of a series of independent rubber-bars A, which are arranged in contact with each other and all 3 5 held assembled by two side bars B, so as to produce a rubbing-surface at the top and bottom of the device. The rubber-bars and side bars are preferably made of hard wood. One form of the rubber-'bars is shown in Figs. l

4o and 2, and as all of said bars therein illustrated are alike the description ot' onebar will sufiice for the series.

As more plainly shown in Fig. 2, each rubber-bar A consists of a pair of rectangular strips a, of suitable width and thickness and equal length, which latter represents the Width of the wash-board between the side bars B. The two similar strips ct are retained spaced apart a proper distance parallel to 5o each other by the blocks b. Said blocks,

being secured near the ends of the strips a, have their ends projected beyond the ends of said strips, the projecting portions b having equally-reduced rounded bodies, as shown in Fig. 1. The side bars B are of equal Y 5 5 dimensions and like Jform, each consisting of a ilattened bar having parallel side faces and edges, handles (Z being formed on the ends of said bars for convenience in handling the board and to avoid taking up room in the 6o wash-tub when the device is in use. Aligning similar longitudinal slots e are formed in the side bars B near their transverse centers and extend a suitable length from points equally distant from the ends of the handles 6 5 d, said slots having a width sufficient to permit the insertion therein of the rounded ends b of the blocks b.

If desired, each of the rounded portions b ot the spacing-blocks ZJ may be extended a 7o sufficient distance through the slotted side barsB and threaded to receive nuts c on their projecting ends, as shown in Fig. l, or the spacing-blocks of altern atingrubber-bars may be projected and threaded to receive bindingnuts, so that the entire series of rubberbars will be held securely attached to the side bars.

As shown in Fig. 2, the rubber-bars A are so arranged in succession that one of the strips a will have close contact with a simi- So lar strip on the adjoining rubber-bar, all said rubber-bars having the same inclination from the plane of the parallel edges ofthe side bars B, which will project similar angular corners a on each strip a above the other corners of said strips, and thus afford rubbing-surfaces on each side of the board of the conventional angular form of ribs.

There being slots g between the strips a of each rubber-bar A, in using the wash-board 9o the water from the clothes or other material operated upon will circulate Afreely through the board and be prevented from splashing upwardly upon the person of the operator.

The strips a should be attached to the blocks l) in a manner which will permit them to be altered in position. Dowel-pins, such as are shown by dotted lines at h in Fig. 3, may be utilized to removably secure the strips and blocks together, whereby the unused anguroo lar corners a of the strips (t may be located I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lct in suit( ble positions for use as rnbbing-surters Patent, is faces for the waslrboard. l. A rubber-bar for wash-boards, consist- 25 Vhen rubber-barsAare each provided with ing` of rectangular strips and spacing-blocks, 5 two strips a, it Willbe evident that there will to which the strips are removably attached be four corners on each strip which are availanear their ends7 the spacing-blocks having ble for rubbing-faces Ontheboard. Thealterthreaded outer ends, substantially as shown ation of adjustment necessary to bring said and described, for the purpose set forth. 3o corners into position being obvious, need not 2. In a wash-board, the combination, with ro be detailed. a pair of iongitudinally-slottcd side bars, of

In the rubber-bar A shown in Figs. 3, i, a series of independent transverse rubberand 5 theonly alteration from the forni shown bars, each consisting of rectangular strips in Figs. l and 2 consists in the provision of and spacing-blocks, to which the strips are 35 four strips t' in place of two strips a, said removably attached near their ends, the spac- 15 strips t' being arranged in pairs oppositelyon ing-blocks having rounded and threaded exthe spacing-blocks I) and removably attached treinities projecting through the slots in the thereto by the dowels 71 so that by turning side bars and provided with binding-nuts, the strips z'y sidewise and renewing their atsubstantially as shown and described.

taclnnent to the blocks I) an increased ninn- .IOIIN THOMAS LENOIR. zo ber of new rubbing-faces may be provided \Vitnesses:

for the wash-board. I. O. MAGEE,

Having thus described my invention, what Z. S. Goss. 

